(19.12.2006) What Hagee thinks on these issues does matter. Through his powerful network of 160 TV stations, Hagee speaks his strident pro-Israel message directly to millions in the Bible Belt, the backbone of the Bush Administration‘s political support. This past July, Hagee flexed some of that political muscle by sending 3,500 followers to lobby on Capital Hill for aggressive action against Iran (see JewsOnFirst‘s report here). But as columnist Yossi Paritzky — who writes for Ynet.com, the English-language website of a major Israeli daily, Yediot Ahronot, notes, there is a price for this love of Israel: